Every parent delivering their baby’s umbilical cord blood stem cells in an up-market hospital in India today is told by their doctor to go ahead and store them. They made many promises about how valuable these stem cells are; how these stem cells can be used to replenish any kind of cell in the body […]
Stem Cell Banking
Things You Must Know About Cord Blood Banking
Cord Blood Bank’s concept is to collect and preserve Cord Blood or Placenta that is released during baby delivery by a pregnant mother. If it is possible to preserve amniotic fluid with the cord, this can cure many diseases through the generation of stem cells and rich blood content and can also be of assistance […]
Harvesting Stem Cell from Peripheral Blood
Are you worried about the future health of your family? Do not worry as by preserving the cord blood of your child will provide your family with a potential way of treatment to various life-threatening ailments. Cord blood banking is the process of collection as well as storage of the stem cells from the umbilical […]
Cord Blood Banking – Saving Tomorrow
Cord blood is the baby’s blood left after birth in the umbilical cord and placenta. It contains unique cells called hematopoietic stem cells which can be used to treat certain disease types. Most cells can only make their own copies. A skin cell, for instance, can only make another skin cell. However, hematopoietic stem cells […]
Opportunities and Threats Laying Impact on Cord Blood Market
There was a huge growth in the cord blood industry during the period of the mid-late 2000s. Through the past few years, the cord blood market had become compact and matured. In addition to North Asia and Southeast Asia, the growth had been also seen in North American as well as the European countries. As […]
Reasons to Save My Baby’s Cord Blood.
After a baby is born, the blood left in the umbilical cord and placenta has unique cells in it which can treat and cure certain serious diseases. The blood can be collected and stored — and many private cord blood banking companies are encouraging parents to do the preservation in case that their child or any family […]
Placenta – A New Source of Storing Stem Cells
When a woman becomes pregnant for the first time, they had to make many decisions. During pregnancy, the umbilical cord is the life of the baby attached to the placenta. The umbilical cord contains two feet twisted long vein which transports oxygen and nutrients from the mother’s placenta. Also, two arteries which carries oxygen as […]
7 Benefits of Preserving Stem Cells
Embryonic stem cells are pluripotent stem cells which can give rise to various types of cells that builds up a human body. The embryonic cells are formed from the inner cell mass of the blastocyst and the blastocyst is the early stage of the embryo before the implantation. Adult stem cells have demonstrated an effective […]
Public vs Private Cord Blood Banking
Cord blood banking has a number of health benefits to both the children and their parents. Let’s learn about cord blood banking. What it is exactly? Cord blood banking is a process of collecting and storing the baby’s umbilical cord blood at the time of birth. The umbilical cord blood has stem cells inside them, […]
Cryopreservation is the Clinical Method of Preserving the Umbilical Cord
Umbilical cord was at first discovered in 1974, as the main source of hematopoietic stem cells as well as the progenitor cells. The first transplantation of the umbilical cord was done in 1988 for the treatment Fanconi Anemia in France. Earlier the tissues of the umbilical cord were considered as a waste but in the […]